Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] run " in BNC.
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| 1 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 2 | He pulled himself up and turned and ran down the avenue after her corps , past slow-moving cars , whose occupants stared at him curiously . |
| 3 | Suddenly , the dogs who were sniffing this exciting new country stopped ; ears raised , hair rising on their necks , they backed slowly towards John and Mary , then they howled and turned and ran back through the cutting , leaving John and Mary puzzled and a bit frightened . |
| 4 | But the dog smelt the man 's fear , and turned and ran away from him faster than it had ever run in its life . |
| 5 | With trembling hands he thumped an alarm button set into the wall beside the door wheel , and turned and ran . |
| 6 | He saw them and halted , standing at gaze for a moment open-mouthed and great-eyed , and then he whooped like a huntsman hot after game , and turned and ran like a hare for the hall , bounding as he ran . |
| 7 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 8 | Children sneezed and cried and ran about in a fever . |
| 9 | Then ran and slipped and ran again , past the church , between the dignified houses on the new Bristol Bridge , dodging the tollkeepers who marvelled at her speed , and over to the Welsh Back where horse-drawn sleds wove between towers of kegs , hanks of rope , sprawling sacks and the beached masts of ships , and where she knew she could shrink unnoticed into a warren of warehouses , entries and cellars . |
| 10 | But I could never again imagine him doing something as spontaneously crazy , as aggressively , contemptuously fate-tempting and unleashed as running out across the frozen ice , arms out , laughing . |